Tuesday, shooting suspect Ali Syed, 22, exited at the 55 freeway at Edinger Avenue after carjacking two vehicles. He stopped at a construction site and shot Jeremy Lewis, 26, in his truck. A co-worker ran over, and Syed leveled the gun and ordered the man to run, then shot him in the arm. Syed took that man•s truck and got back on the freeway, this time heading north. Wednesday morning, Tustin police investigators revisited the scene and talked with construction workers who were near yesterday's events.

Orange County Sheriff's department personnel investigate the scene of a shooting on Red Leaf Lane in Ladera Ranch on Tuesday. One woman was shot and killed at the location. Authorities believe Ladera Ranch was the start of a shooting spree that ended in Orange leaving four dead and two wounded.

The underpass of the 5 freeway at Red Hill Avenue was closed to traffic early Tuesday morning after a reported carjacking and shooting there. A dark Cadillac was the only vehicle inside the police perimeter. Traffic was snarled in the area as motorists sought alternative routes during the morning commute.

An Orange police officer directs traffic on Wanda Road in Orange early Tuesday morning. An investigation continues just up the road as a body lies in the intersection of Wanda Road and Katella Avenue.

A body lies in the intersection of Wanda Road and Katella Avenue early Tuesday morning as police investigate the scene. Four people are dead and two others wounded in multiple shootings near the 55 and 5 freeways, authorities said.

An object resembling a gun sits in the street near a body in the intersection of Wanda Road and Katella Avenue early Tuesday morning as police investigate.

An Orange police office stands by a road closed sign at Wanda Road and Coolidge Avenue in Orange early Tuesday morning as police investigate a shooting.

Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino speaks during a news conference at a mobile command center in Tustin on Tuesday morning. Four people are dead and two others wounded in a shooting rampage that led authorities from Ladera Ranch to Orange, authorities said.

Lt. Paul Garaven of the Tustin Police Department speaks to reporters during a news conference in Tustin on Tuesday morning. Four people are dead and two others wounded in a shooting rampage that led authorities from Ladera Ranch to Orange, authorities said.

Lt. Paul Garaven of the Tustin Police Department speaks during a news conference at a mobile command center in Tustin on Tuesday morning. Four people are dead and two others wounded in a shooting rampage that led authorities from Ladera Ranch to Orange, authorities said.

Tustin police officers and detectives coordinate their investigation efforts near the body of a person shot at the Micro Center computer and electronics store, at Del Amo and Edinger avenues. Two people were shot in an apparent carjacking. One person died at the scene and the other was taken to a hospital.

Tustin police officers and a detective scan the parking lot at the Micro Center computer and electronics store, at Del Amo and Edinger Avenues, after two people were shot, one fatally, right, early Tuesday morning. Four people are dead and another two wounded in multiple shootings that were reported near the 55 and 5 freeways, authorities said.

A California Highway Patrol officer gathers up crime scene tape as a tow truck driver prepares to remove a Dodge Ram 1500 pickup from the scene of a fatal shooting at the end of the McFadden Avenue exit of the southbound 55 freeway. The shooting/ carjacking was part of a series of what police believe were related events that left four people dead and two wounded. Police believe the gunman took at least two cars from other drivers before being pulled over in Orange, and then shot himself.

At 9:42 a.m. Tuesday, Santa Ana police crime scene investigators had placed a temporary shelter over the body of a man shot at the intersection of Village Way and the southbound 55 freeway exit (the exit is marked as the McFadden Avenue exit).

Jeremy Lewis, of Fullerton, was shot and killed on his way to work at a construction site near Edinger and Newport avenues. Another person was also wounded at the scene.

Josie Connors talks outside the scene of a shooting on Red Leaf Lane in Ladera Ranch on Tuesday. "My heart aches," Connors said. "This neighborhood is very safe and very quiet." Connors has lived in Ladera Ranch for seven years and down the block from the shooting scene for two years. Authorities believe Ladera Ranch was the start of a shooting spree that ended in Orange leaving four dead and two wounded.

Police investigators examine a shotgun found lying in the street at the intersection of Wanda Road and Katella Avenue in Orange early Tuesday morning near where a body lay moments before.

Police investigators place a shotgun into a box at the intersection of Wanda Road and Katella Avenue in Orange early Tuesday morning.

A black GMC Denali believed to be involved in an early morning shooting rampage that left four people dead, including the shooter, is loaded onto a flatbed tow truck at the intersection of El Camino Real and Red Hill in Tustin Tuesday.

The Orange County coroner's office wheels a body, believed to be that of the gunman in earlier shootings, to a waiting van at the intersection of Wanda Road and Katella Avenue in Orange on Tuesday morning.

California Highway Patrol officers tape off the McFadden Avenue off-ramp of the south 55 freeway after a person was fatally shot during an apparent carjacking incident there early Tuesday morning. The carjacking was part of a series of what police believe were related events that left four people dead and two wounded. Police believe the gunman took at least two cars from other drivers before being pulled over in Orange, and then shot himself.

Carlos Rojas, interim Chief of Police for Santa Ana, speaks during a press conference at a law enforcement mobile command center in Tustin set up to handle a shooting rampage that has left four people dead, including the shooter, across the county Tuesday.

Tustin Police Chief Scott Jordan speaks during a press conference at a law enforcement mobile command center in Tustin set up to handle a shooting rampage that has left four people dead, including the shooter, across the county Tuesday.

What appears to be a shotgun shell is marked for evidence in front a body on the pavement of a computer store parking lot, the Micro Center in Tustin. The fatal shooting, at Del Amo and Endinger Avenues, was part of a morning shooting spree, where a suspect carjacked three vehicles in the 55/5 freeway area. Two people were shot in the MicroCenter parking lot before the suspect took another vehicle. One of the victims was taken to a nearby hospital. The other was killed.

BULLETIN: Police have identified the woman who was killed inside a Ladera Ranch home, the first victim in a shooting rampage Tuesday that left four people dead, officials said.

Law enforcement officials have been working to identify the woman since Tuesday morning, hoping that her identity could help answer questions such as the motive for the deadly shooting spree that started in Ladera Ranch and ended in Orange.

The identity was not publicly released because officials are working to notify her next of kin, said Gail Krause, spokeswoman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

Authorities were not sure what the woman was doing in the home of Ali Syed, a 20-year-old man who authorities said killed the woman with a shotgun in his room. Syed’s parents, both of whom were home when the shooting happened about 4:45 a.m., told investigators they did not know the woman.

At this point, she has been identified only as a 20-year-old woman from Orange County.

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A 20-year-old man armed with a shotgun and driven by no motive that investigators could discern blasted his way through Orange County on Tuesday, killing three people and then himself, authorities said.

Police identified Ali Syed, an unemployed sometime-student who lived at home with his parents, as the killer who stole cars and fired into freeway traffic during a shooting spree that covered 25 miles and took less than an hour. “I killed somebody,” he reportedly told the driver of a pickup during one carjacking. “Today is my last day.”

Police said Syed executed Melvin Lee Edwards, 69, a businessman on his way to work, after ordering him out of his car and walking him to the curb. Minutes later, he confronted Jeremy Lewis, 26, a worker at a construction site, and shot him as he sat in his truck.

But investigators had not identified a woman they believe was Syed’s first victim. She was shot multiple times before dawn in the Ladera Ranch home where Syed lived with his parents and other family members.

Syed’s parents told investigators they did not know the woman and had never seen her before, said Jim Amormino, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Investigators were trying late Tuesday to identify her through her fingerprints.

“There’s no indication of a motive” to the shootings, Tustin police Chief Scott Jordan said.

Neighbors reported hearing what sounded like gunshots in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Investigators believe the first victim, described only as a woman in her 20s, was shot about 4:45 a.m. Syed’s parents were home at the time and called police as they fled outside.

Rachel Johnson, 28, heard a pop along with what sounded like a man yelling and a woman screaming, but not a loud scream, sometime before 4 a.m.

“It was loud; it wasn’t just talking,” she said of the man’s voice.

Her bedroom window faces the house and she said she woke up to the sounds – sounds that didn’t alarm her at the time – sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.

However, Jay Smith, 27, said he and his wife, who have a shared wall with the Syed’s, didn’t hear any noises Tuesday morning, including anything resembling a shotgun being fired.

“I’m from Mississippi, so I know what they sound like,” he said Tuesday night.

Property records identify the home’s owners as Irfan and Sarwat Syed. Amormino emphasized that Sarwat was not the unidentified woman found shot to death in the home.

Police and Sheriff’s Department officials gave the following account of what happened next:

Ali Syed took the family’s GMC Yukon Denali and fled north on I-5, but pulled off the freeway in Tustin after the SUV got a flat tire. The driver of a dark Cadillac waiting in a parking lot saw that Syed was armed and tried to escape. Syed shot the car’s back window, hitting and wounding the driver in the head.

He moved next on a pickup, ordering the driver to give him the keys. The driver told investigators that Syed said something along the lines of: “I killed somebody. Today’s my last day,” or “I’m not going to live,” Jordan said. And then: “I’d like your keys. I don’t want to hurt you.”

He drove the pickup northbound on I-5, then turned south onto the 55 freeway but stopped on the transition road and opened fire into traffic. One driver was hit in the hand and face, possibly by glass shards; two other vehicles were hit but their drivers were not injured.

Syed pulled off the freeway again in Santa Ana because the truck was low on gas. He took a corner too quickly, went over the curb and then got out of the truck and approached Edwards, stopped in his BMW at a stop sign.

He walked Edwards to the curb and then “basically executed him,” Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. Edwards, the chairman of a company called Rubicon Gear, was shot three times as half a dozen witnesses watched.

Syed took Edwards’ BMW, made a U-turn back onto the southbound 55 freeway, then quickly exited at Edinger Avenue. He stopped at a construction site and shot Lewis in his truck. A co-worker ran over, and Syed leveled the gun and ordered the man to run, then shot him in the arm.

He took that man’s truck and got back on the freeway, this time heading north. California Highway Patrol officers got behind him but were just getting in position to attempt to pull him over when he turned off the freeway in Orange.

He stepped from the car before it had come to a stop and “almost instantly” shot himself in the head, Jordan said. It was about 5:30 a.m., 45 minutes after the first shooting in Ladera Ranch. Police said they recovered a shotgun near his body that belonged to him or his family.

Syed had no criminal record. He was unemployed but had been taking college-prep classes at Saddleback College. He was enrolled this semester in a computer-maintenance class, college spokeswoman Jennie McCue said.

He graduated in 2010 from Junipero Serra High School in San Juan Capistrano, where he attended the continuation school, said Marcus Walton, a school district spokesman.

Police had not been called before to the Ladera Ranch condominium where Syed lived with his parents and other children in the family.

Neighbors said the family included a younger brother and sister.

Smith, the neighbor, had met the parents, both of whom he described as very nice and the first to say hello when he moved in, and knew they had two children, but he had never met Ali Syed.

“I swear, I don’t even know if I’ve ever seen him,” Smith said. “He’s a ghost to me.”

Josh Hubner, 15, said he sits next to the younger sister in his math class at San Juan Hills High School.

Hubner said Syed looked like a guy who kept to himself when he saw him a couple times around the neighborhood.

Another neighbor said the younger brother wasn’t in her science class Tuesday.

Tanner Doezie, 18, and Josh Ord, 17, said San Juan Hills High School was buzzing with rumors Tuesday.

“It’s crazy. It doesn’t seem like anything like that happens here,” Doezie said of the quiet Ladera Ranch neighborhood.

Alejandra Molina has been a reporter since 2006 and has covered a number of beats -- from crime and transportation to religion and immigration -- for The Orange County Register and The Press-Enterprise.

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